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Design

The Oatmeal: How a Website Goes Straight to Hell

Awwwards: Web Design Trends to Know 2015-2016

The Atlantic: The Freelancing Revolution

Web Hosting Media.net: How Wordpress and Web Design Templates changed Web Design

Smashing Magazine: The Dying Art Of Design

MOZ: Search Engine Optimization

Creative Bloq: 11 Things Not Taught in Design School

CreativeBloq: Rate Negotiating, the Business Side of Freelancing

Google: Redesigning the Google Logo

Lindsredding: A overdue Lesson on Perspective

Design For Hackers: Why Graphic Designers Hate Comic Sans

Design Shack: Designing Logos that Don't Suck

Your Freelance Career: Finding Clients and Leads

Font War: Inside the Design World's $20 Million Divorce

Typographia: Beatrice Warde- The Crystal Goblet Excerpt from a Lecture to the British Typographers’ Guild

Designboom: Interview with Jessica Walsh

Designboom: Interview with Susan Kare

Zazzle: Promoting your graphic design work on online stores: Interview with Nic Squirrell

Readwrite: The Future Of Mobile May Not Look Like Apps





Video

Aftercollege.com: Tips for aspiring video editors and producers

The Guardian: Television Media Careers

Indiewire: Submitting to Film Festivals

About.com: Video Editing Tips

MediaCollege.com: Video Composition Tips

DIY Photography.net: Professional product shots using a black granite tile

Exposure Guide: Common Photography and Camera Mistakes

Nikon USA: Bokeh Photography

Videomaker: Taking Care of Equipment

Mic.com: How Famous Directors got their Start

The Beat: Getting Financial Backing for Short Films

Film Independent: Film Distribution

NoFilmSchool: Film Festivals vs. YouTube

Entrepreneur: YouTube is Good for Recognition, Not Earning Revenue

Indiewire: Michael Moore's tips on how to make documentaries that people will actually want to see

The Creators Project: Nam June Paik Was The De Facto Father of Video Art

Artspace: Experimental Film Pioneer Jonas Mekas on the Early Days of New York's Avant-Garde

Slashfilm: Virtual Reality's Implications for Filmmakers





Animation

io9/Gizmodo: Disney switches Zootopia protagonists to save the story

Cartoon Brew: Tech Academy Awards

Wired: How Pixar differs from every other studio in Hollywood: Quality comes first, even if it means starting over mid-production

Silver Petticoat Review: Is Hand Drawn Animation Dead?

Mental Floss: Toy Story 2 Horror Story

D23: Preserving Disney Animation Records

The Walt Disney Family Museum: Women in the Disney Ink and Paint Department

The New Yorker: Groupthink- The Brainstorming Myth

CartoonBrew: How long should you take to Storyboard?

AWN: Interview with Hayao Miyazaki before his retirement

AWN: Interview with Ralph Eggleston

The Verge: Sanjay Patel Interview

CartoonBrew: Wage Suppression Lawsuit implicates Pixar, Dreamworks, + others

Hollywood Reporter: Job Competition

CartoonBrew: Dreamworks shuts down PDI studio

The Robot's Voice: Working as a professional Anime animator

Priceonomics: Will Vinton- How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company

Conceptart.org: Artist Contracts and NDAs: How to negotiate retaining the rights to your work





Game Design

Game Career Guide: Interview with Jean-Francois Lévesque

Creative Bloq: 20 Best Designs in Video Games

Kotaku: Crunch Time

Kotaku: Layoffs

Games Radar: Legacy of Lionhead Studios

PC Gamer: Lionhead Studios Closure

Kotaku: Game Studio Shutdowns since 2006

Gameacademy: The Indie Revolution

Envato Tuts: Creating Hype for your Indie Game

Gamasutra: The Importance of Art Style

AV Club: Cel Shading in Video Games

The Guardian: Graphics, Realism, and Graphics Engines Advancements

The Guardian: Immersive Narrative

Reporter: Immersive Narrative Continued

Escapist Magazine: Console Wars

Tech Crunch: Mobile Gaming Trends

CinemaBlend: Game Developers moving away from Single Player Campaigns towards Multiplayer

Polygon: Joystiq shuts down

New Yorker: Kojima's split from Konami

The Atlantic: Candy Crush Revenue

VR World: DLCs





Tech

The Atlantic: Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Reuters: Apple Encryption battle with FBI

Fortune: Oculus Rift and the future of HD Video Graphics

MIT Technology Review: Google Cardboard

GamesRadar: VR Pros and Cons

Oculus: VR Introduction to Best Practices

Tech Times: SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and the Dawn of the Privatized Space Industry

TechCrunch: 3D Printing the Next Industrial Revolution?

Gizmodo: DARPA's Big Dog prototype robotic-packhorse retired

Science Alert: Researchers are a step closer to creating an untraceable 'quantum Internet'

Business Insider: The strange love-hate relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

Gizmodo: Exoskeleton power suits

The Race For AI: Google, Twitter, Intel, Apple In A Rush To Grab Artificial Intelligence Startups

Observer: Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates warn about A.I.

Scientific American: Go Champion defeated by DeepMind Computer

Bloomberg: Why Google wants to sell Boston Dynamics: Reality is Hard

UpVenue: Musician Stances on Internet Music Sharing/Piracy

LA Times: Piracy vs. Open Internet

Wired: Revenge of the Right Brain





Feature Films, Special Effects, and the Entertainment Industry

Slashfilm: World of Warcraft Groundbreaking Facial Performance Capture

Cinefex: Practical effects vs. Digital effects

io9/Gizmodo: Will Superhero movies go the way of Hollywood Westerns?

SCPR: Rhythm and Hues Bankruptcy

Variety: Morgan Freeman on Oscars Diversity Controversy

Indiewire: Hollywood's Lack of Women Directors

Hollywood Reporter: Film Academy Invites a Record 683 New Members, Emphasis on Diversity

LA Times: Writers Strike 2015

Film and Digital Media: Writers Strike Concessions

USA Today: Disney Buys Lucasfilm (along with Pixar, Marvel, ABC, The Jim Henson Company, ESPN, etc.)

The Atlantic: Mass Appeal Marketing

Vox: The Second Act Problem

Cheatsheet: Superhero Movie Distribution Rights

Liberty: How Hollywood studio profits work

Film School Secrets: Above the Line, Below the Line

The Wrap: Why Hollywood’s Biggest Films Are Leaving L.A. for London

Nielsen: The Rise of Viral Music Videos

Zacuto: VFX Industry Problems

Hollywood Reporter: VFX Instability in California's Movie/Animation Complex

Mexico News Network: The film industry in Mexico